A life well lived and other musings

I learned a lesson or three today, the most important that a life well lived leaves room for no regrets when it's time to move on, and that death for some can be a celebration of life and a legacy of love for those still living. Geoff Becker taught his friends and family how to live life so that when the time comes to leave there is gratitude, love, laughter and tears but no regrets. It is not surprising that those people who leave large footprints in life do so also in death. What a world it would be if everyone took a lesson from Geoff; to give to others without sacrificing oneself, to work hard but still have fun, to strive for excellence in all that you do and remain modest about your accomplishments, to love another person steadily year after year and to still be 'in love', to do the same job year after year and still be productive and creative, to set an example for your children and the children of your friends with humor, to enable an auditorium full of family and friends to cry together and laugh together when you are no longer there to share the tears and laughter with them. Thank you Geoff, you wrote the book, and none of us is too old to learn from it.